The Trad Wife Paradox with Anne Helen Petersen

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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4.6 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Trevor, Christiana, and noted writer and journalist Anne Helen Petersen discuss the growing #tradwife trend, the ideological conviction that a woman’s sole and highest purpose is to be her spouse’s modest, subservient helpmate, and that anything less is ungodly. Why do more women now seem to be taking on this mantle? Are cleaning, cooking, and total submission truly the path to godliness, or have we fallen so far off the societal cliff that women are simply exhausted?

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0:00.0	My mom is the antithesis of Trad Anything.
0:03.8	I remember one day I said to my mom, can we get some KFC?
0:06.7	And then my mom was like, we can't afford KFC.
0:08.6	Then my mom said, you know what, honey?
0:10.0	I'm going to make you KFC.
0:11.8	And I was like, what?
0:12.7	You can make KFC?
0:13.7	She's like, I can make KFC.
0:15.8	I was like, people could make KFC, everyone would make KFC.
0:23.4	You're telling me KFC doesn't only come from the colonel?
0:24.5	How do you have the secret?
0:28.6	And we went into the kitchen and then she made, and then she fried it.
0:31.1	And then we're there and I was like, wow, my mom made KFC.
0:32.7	And I'll never, and I'll never forget.
0:33.3	I ate it.
0:39.4	And then I looked at her and I was like, this shit is not KFC. Some of my issues that I deal with in therapy are probably because of that moment.
0:42.9	You know when they say you lose trust in your parents?
0:46.1	I looked at this woman and I was like, why would you lie to me?
0:50.6	Why would you say you can make KFC when you can't make KFC?
0:56.0	And then she looked at me and then like, and then I started doubting myself because I was like, why would you think your
0:58.9	mother can make KFC? If you could make KFC, she would have opened KFC. This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
1:19.5	All right.
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